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口头禅

kǒu tóu chán

HSK 3.0 level 7-9 3-character word Traditional 口頭禪

口头禅 (kǒu tóu chán) means "Zen saying repeated as cant; (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase". It is an HSK 3.0 level 7-9 word, and was not on the old six-level HSK list.

What 口头禅 means

1. Zen saying repeated as cant
2. (fig.) catchphrase; mantra; favorite expression; stock phrase

The characters in 口头禅

• 口kǒumouth; classifier for things with mouths (people, domestic animals, cannons, wells etc)…
• 头tóuhead; hair style; the top
• 禅chándhyana (Sanskrit); Zen; meditation (Buddhism)

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